My favorite chapter in Eating
Animals was the chapter that talked mainly about the chickens. I think this one
hit home the most because of the way it showed the actual torture going on with
the animals. The beginning of the chapter shows an empty rectangle, which is
roughly the size of a cage for a grown chicken. Being someone who needs a lot
of free open space, I sympathize with the chicken because living in such a
cramped area is hard and stressful(depending on whether the chicken likes his
neighbors and cagemates, obviously) and takes a toll on the animal, especially
when wild chickens are used to running free and being in wide, open spaces (not
to be confused with the Dixie Chicks song). I know torture is wrong, and that
humane animal slaughter is the best way to do things. When I heard how
treacherous these animals have it, I immediately felt awful and disgusted with
big companies that do this just to save a few cents per chicken. I also realize
that humane slaughter is a lot more critical and time consuming, making factory
farming much more economical in the eyes of the greedy, so, although there is a
right and ethical way to do things, I feel bad because I feel there is not much
I can do. I also thought that Words/Meanings
was a good chapter because of all the background information it provided us so
that we could further understand different meanings of words by definition and
by Saffran Foer’s connotations.
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